Director of Infrastructure

Help define the future of hardware development by building a collaboration platform for circuit designs, enabling the next generation of smart vehicles, IoT devices, rockets, medical devices, robotics, and much more. At AllSpice, we're building the agile development environment for hardware designers, including a Git-friendly translation layer and automated CI/CD framework for native circuit designs, think GitHub/GitLab + Copilot for electronics. Read more about our latest Series A announcement here ! As Director of Infrastructure, you will own AllSpice's infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end while building and leading a small, high-impact team. This is a hands-on leadership role: roughly 60% management and strategic work, 40% individual contribution, reporting to the CTO. With the team at 1–2 people for the next 12 months, there are no layers between you and production — you'll write the Terraform, lead the incident call, and walk an enterprise customer's CISO through our security posture, sometimes all in the same week. If you want executive-level ownership at a fast-growing startup — and you still love shipping infrastructure yourself — this role is for you. What you'll do This is a high-impact role that comes with significant autonomy and requires a self-driven, strategic, and collaborative builder. You will own our infrastructure, security, and compliance programs end-to-end. Hands-on infrastructure and scaling Architect, build, and operate our production AWS environments using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code — you'll ship your own changes Make the architectural calls on cloud strategy, high availability, scaling, and cost optimization as our workloads and customer base grow Automate deployments, backups, and disaster recovery across AllSpice Cloud, single-tenant, and self-hosted configurations Monitor and improve the performance, availability, and cost efficiency of production systems across all hosting models Work closely with application developers to deploy infrastructure solutions to product problems Customer-facing engineering Lead enterprise deployments end-to-end across our three hosting models — AllSpice Cloud, single-tenant instances, and self-hosted — including architecture reviews, SSO/OIDC integrations, and security sign-off Own the process for spinning up application instances for customer evaluations — streamline it now, automate it over time Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer InfoSec questionnaires, IT security reviews, and procurement processes Support self-hosted and GovCloud deployments for customers with ITAR, EAR, or CUI requirements Partner with customer success and sales to turn infrastructure into a reason enterprises buy Security and compliance ownership Own AllSpice's security posture: policies, incident response, disaster recovery, and ongoing risk assessment Maintain SOC 2 compliance, penetration testing, and audit processes; evaluate additional certifications as we grow Work with legal counsel on security and data-protection matters, including DPAs, breach notification obligations, and regulatory requirements People management and team building Hire, mentor, and manage infrastructure engineers as the team grows Set team goals, define processes, and establish on-call rotations — and take your own turn in the rotation, leading incident response when needed Create growth paths for ICs and foster a culture of operational excellence Example projects Automate provisioning of evaluation instances so a prospective customer can be testing AllSpice in hours, not days Scale infrastructure for zero-downtime deployments across multi-region AWS accounts Plan and evaluate horizontal scaling strategies for compute runtime to support growing workloads and concurrent users Lead an enterprise customer through a self-hosted deployment, including architecture review, SSO integration, and security sign-off Identify opportunities to reduce cloud spend while impro